When we last dropped by Main and Division, Cafe Dolce was hours away from opening its doors for business, and the Magic Lantern had been running things running smoothly for well over a month. However yesterday on a stroll we spotted the above public notice on 22 W. Main [GMAP] across from Isabella's.
Having just seen one of these on a post at The Back Kitchen, we took a closer look. The name reads ZOLA and ZOLA wants to serve wine, beer, and liqs as a restaurant/lounge format. The lights were off, but the daylighting was enough to give a glimpse of the interior which looked somewhat eclectic. A bar near the front entry was all we could see, with perhaps room for dining just beyond towards the back...Oh...Hell...Yeah. The East Side just gets better and better. It's amazing what a movie theater can do for a place.
word is......it's going to be a jazz bar/lounge. Should be nice!
Posted by: rob | December 21, 2007 at 01:04 AM
How exciting. Jim Sheehan and his forward thinking Saranac deserve a lot of credit for breathing fresh air into E. Downtown.
Posted by: Bart Mihailovich | December 21, 2007 at 06:24 AM
Zola is the jazz bar sibling of WIlliam Webster's Isabella's just across the street. Dan Spalding (the building owner and notable local artist) is doing the interior design using recycled materials.
Posted by: David Blaine | December 21, 2007 at 07:35 AM
I heard tapas.. as far as food goes..
Posted by: benJAMMIN" | December 21, 2007 at 08:21 AM
There will be a 2nd level card room covered in recycled license plates to host games in (apparently legal if the house doesn't take a cut), two encloseable party rooms with refurbished wrap-around wall seating, hand poured concrete bar and counter tops, bar stools and more by Biggs Metal Art, and balcony seating constructed out of my Grandpa's old Tilt-A-Whirl buckets. Above the bar are some foot rests off of the seats from my family's old Ferris Wheel. So obviously this place is significant for me personally, like some kind of living museum.
A lot of TLC went in to designing and building this special, authentically Spokane establishment. Everyone should go there and check it out with their friends.
Posted by: Mariah McKay | December 21, 2007 at 10:23 AM
does anyone know the projected opening date?
Posted by: rob | December 21, 2007 at 11:06 PM
As far as I can tell, the opening date can't be set because the place is in review by regulatory officials and they are taking a frustrating amount of time with the approval process. Hopefully within a 1-3 months?
Posted by: Mariah McKay | December 24, 2007 at 11:10 AM